I have to admit I haven’t used vista heavily, but I do have it running on my media pc. The media pc isnt’ great, only a P4 2.8 with 2.5GB DDR and a GeForce 4MX. But that’s all that’s installed on it. After about a weeks use the hard drive has 40GB used of the 80GB on their. But I store NO FILES on it. It’s that stupid winsxs shit, that keeps storing my suspend files because they change over and over and over. So the suspend feature is broken imo. But this isn’t a Vista rant. Let’s move on to 7.
It seems fast. Really fast, vista seems to destroy my dual core system while 7 seems to enjoy my single core desktop.
The new start bar is slick. Hovering over the icons is nice. The preview is faster, and you can do a “hide-all-desktop” sort of thing by hovering over the small window thumbnail. It hides everything and only shows you what you’re hovering over.
On the topic of the start bar, it seems to take the most common color in your task, and highlight the button with it as you mouse over. A sort of starburst effect that follows your mouse. Very pretty.
I can hide all my system tray icons YES PLEASE. But the network system trary one still sucks. If you want to know your IP, DNS, anything useful… gl finding it.
On a fresh install the winsxs is ~3gb. After a couple days in, it’s still ~3gb. THANK GOD!
The default option is now Shutdown, not suspend. But you can change it easily. (I won’t be)
Boot screen changed, start button changed, blah blah. Not that cool.
Now, the My Music/pictures/shit folders that were moved in vista are muuuch easier to get to. Their right on the side of the explorer window. You can make new libraries easily, and you can include folders from anywhere inside your libraries. Similar to a *nix symlink but not quite (Yes, I know NTFS has symlinks). It’s amazing. Love it.
There is a new feature “Homegroups” but it requires all pc’s to have windows 7. No thanks.
Hmm what else. Control panel is cleaned up. UAC has a “Never talk to me again” option (LOL VISTA)
Just took that screenshot and mspaint has been updated and saves in “Rediculously large PNG” mode by default. But it looks nicer, and at least its not BMP’ing all over the place now.
Another interesting feature is dragging windows around on the desktop. If you drag a window to the top right hand side of your desktop, the window is instantly resized to half of your screen on the right side. Top center, and it is instantly full screened. Top left, half of your screen on the left side. Wonderful feature, but it seems to lag a little for me. I’m still on an AGP system though.
It’s not a great review, just points of interesting things 
but I guess the most important thing is that every program I have still works. 0 install problems. I am a little worried because it seems to have a new memory protection built in though. Programs seem not to have access to other programs active memory. It sounds good, but I wonder how many problems it will cause.
